Where did all the developers go?

Short answer: We're taking some vacation time.

Since the two core devs are both students (Jay and I), we get busy every now and then. Right now the project is slowing down due to the fact that we're busy with school-related things. I'm even busy during the summer with school projects. For me, things should start to slow down near October, but I can't guarantee anything. I have no clue what's going on with Jay, but I still talk with him, so he's still alive.

The other thing is that we're still trying to figure out what we're going to do with 2.0. We don't really know what exactly we want to do, and how we want to do things. I think pretty soon I'm just going to start a thread on the forums, so maybe we can get some ideas flowing, maybe we can draw up some concepts. Steven had a few good ideas, and so did Jay and I, we just need to plan things out so that we know exactly how we're going to code things and what not..

Hopefully, we should be able to still finish up 1.0, and fix any bugs that we may have missed (so, updates like 1.0.1 and 1.0.2). The thing is, we didn't really test as we wrote 1.0, so it has a lot of bugs. This makes us core developers bored, and as a result, we want to do other things. In 2.0 this won't be a problem, since we're doing some strict unit testing, so we'll catch bugs earlier. At the time of writing, there's only three bugs open, so it's just a matter of someone finding the courage to fix the bugs and releasing 1.0 final. At this point though, I want to just get 1.0 out the door.

So yeah, the project has slowed down. Sorry for keeping you all waiting.

UPDATE: Jay is dead:

(01:24:00 PM) jay: I'm dead
(01:24:04 PM) jay: I'm talking to you
(01:24:09 PM) jay: from beyond
(01:24:10 PM) jay: k?

Note from Jay: Ignore our internal commentary, I'm still alive and kicking, just been busy recently. :)

Posted by Will Riley on September 5, 2009